You can’t beat a shoe launch with free cake, cocktails and a nail salon. Really, you can’t. Shame I don’t have any nails, or indeed a uterus. Me loves a bit of cake though. 

Ok, so every year the line-up at ATP is well worth splurging in excess of a hundred quid on, but this year we may actually pull the trigger. As part of The Fans Strike Back weekend, Butlins, Minehead will be graced by the presence of Devo, Sleep and Grails, and that’s just for starters. On between the 8th and 10th of May buy yourself an early xmas present and get a ticket as soon as you can, it’ll be sold out before you know it.     

Usual rules apply, we put a night on with our friends at Slam, you turn up, and we all drink too much. Deal? Wonk Unit and Whiter Teeth Than You will be on stage and Jackson and Hogs will be in the booth from 8 til late. Scrawl Wednesday the 15th of October in permanent marker on the back of your hand now. 

This weekend, more specifically the 12th of October 2008, at the Brixton academy is the world B-Boy finals. Like rap battles and any other form of competition there are two teams/crews, and they have to battle each other to decide which one is the best, by using the most impressive display of dancing or words (spitting). The winning crew/team are chosen by the amount of “props” they get from a crowd of peers, the losing team are shamed, then branded on the face, so everyone knows they lost a battle. Pretty savage stuff, so when I heard it was going on in Brixton, I thought to myself “Couchy, you should do an update, because things are going to get serious, they are going to tear down London”…and then the kid from Britain’s Got Talent rang me, and told he was going to piss on Ant & Dec’s shoes – Couch

From now until the the 5^th of October you have yet another reason to visit Germany, yes it’s Oktoberfest. Granted I suppose you could just get really pissed and pretend you’re at this year’s traditional beer festival at home, but it wouldn’t be the same. The festival has 14 tents, all in the name of adding variation to the true goal of any beer fest, which is to get absolutely smashed and try your luck with the feisty locals or beer girls!

 Anyways as I was saying, there are 14 tents with everything you could ever want to accompany your beer and bratwurst, from hip-hop to rock, and I’m pretty sure there will be some sketchy local music and even some Morris dancing, too. If you’re not sold on the idea, there are more details here, but don’t come crying to me if you miss out. Be quick, raus, raus! – Couch

We know this will be thick with middle aged men on colour-coded fixed gear bikes doing amazing tricks like…cycling…. and erm wheelies, but in spite of that London’s Bicycle Film Festival, which kicks off next Thursday (the 25th), looks epic. The list of feature films and documentaries is far, far, far too long to do justice here, so instead watch this clip from one of the flicks we’d like to see, Les Ninjas Du Japon, and go to the festival site for times/listings.